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Famous Quotes

"I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another."

Ayelet Waldman on Nature

More quotes about Nature

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

Ayelet Waldman on Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Ayelet Waldman on Anais Nin

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

Ayelet Waldman on Albert Einstein

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

Ayelet Waldman on e. e. cummings

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

Ayelet Waldman on Abraham Lincoln

More quotes by Ayelet Waldman

"By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat."

"Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?"

"By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins."

"Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers."

"Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful."